Jay-Z 'has not dropped the word bitch from his songs'

Sources reportedly close to Jay-Z have denied widespread reports that he will stop using the word "bitch" in his music.

A poem attributed to the rapper had suggested that he would stop rapping the word following the birth of his daughter Blue Ivy with wife Beyoncé.

The poem read: "Before I got in the game, made a change, and got rich/ I didn't think hard about using the word bitch/ I rapped, I flipped it, I sold it, I lived it/ Now with my daughter in this world I curse those that give it."

However, a source reportedly close to Jay-Z told E! News that the rapper had not written the poem in question.

Furthermore, The Roots star Questlove wrote on Twitter: "This just in:@S_C_ [Shawn 'Jay-Z' Carter] to me: "B*aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaatch!!!!!!!! and tweet that."